Diners' Choice: Best Overall Restaurants in San Francisco

by The OpenTable Team

Updated June 07, 2019

Looking for the best overall restaurants in San Francisco? You’re in the right place. Each month OpenTable analyzes more than 400,000 new diner reviews. We sort the results by category to help you discover new favorites. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

KUSAKABE

4.8

4.8 (406)

$50 and over

Sushi

Financial District / Embarcadero

About the restaurant

Come and experience San Francisco's original Omakase (chef's choice) sushi in the Kyoto-kaiseki style.

Kyoto-kaiseki is considered to represent the ultimate in Japanese dining; combining art and the finest seasonal ingredients.

Kyoto-born and trained chef Mitsunori Kusakabe's creative accolades include winning the Creative Sushi Award from the National Sushi Society and Sushi of the Year in competition against other world-renowned sushi chefs.

If your party size is more than 11 guests or if you are considering a buyout, please contact us at info@kusakabe-sf.com.

Top review

Joseph

Dined on Dec 11, 2024

Had such a wonderful anniversary dinner here. Such delicious variety of dishes in the petite omakase and service was top notch. The trout and bluefin were standouts. Will have to come back for full omakase

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Experience

Petite Omakase for Tuesday through Friday

Birdsong

4.8

4.8 (71)

$50 and over

American

San Francisco Bay Area

About the restaurant

Our Birdsong experience, called Journey, is around 13 courses and is priced at $200 Tuesdays-Thursdays and $225 on Fridays and Saturdays. The Journey menu is offered at the chef's table and in the dining room, all reservations on Open Table will be for our Journey menu. To allow our guests to experience Birdsong in a smaller format, we offer a condensed tasting menu called Discovery priced at $170 in limited availability Tuesdays-Thursdays. To reserve our Discovery menu please go to our website and book a reservation titled "Discovery Menu",

We are happy to accommodate pescatarian, vegetarian, or dairy free (with the exception of butter) menus with notice ahead of time. We are unable to accommodate severe gluten, soy, shellfish or meat allergies.

Canceling a reservation within 48 hours of your reservation will result in an automatic cancellation fee of a full menu charge per guest.

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OpenTable DinerVIP

Dined on Dec 21, 2019

Went their to celebrate my bday and they made it very special for us !

Sushi Hashiri

5.0

5 (216)

$50 and over

Sushi

SOMA

About the restaurant

A progressive approach executed from a deep history of Kappo and Omakase Edomae Sushi. Two of Japan’s historical culinary concepts brought together combining hyper-seasonal ingredients and premium fish selections direct from our private purveyor inside the world renown Toyosu fish market in Tokyo, Japan. Hashiri’s focus is to exemplify its re-evolving cuisine to showcase Japan’s richest seasonal ingredients.

HASHIRI "KODAWARI EDOMAE SUSHI" - $300
Hyper seasonal multi course Kappo & Omakase Edomae Sushi dining experience at the sushi counter.

HASHIRI " OMAKASE EDOMAE SUSHI" - $200
Hyper seasonal Omakase Edomae Sushi dining experience at the sushi counter.

Due to our limited seating and the effort involved in curating our menu with internationally sourced ingredients, we kindly ask for your understanding regarding our cancellation policy. Cancellations or no-shows within 72 hours of your reservation will incur the full cost of the dining experience.

Top review

ShigeVIP

Dined 7 days ago

great experience overall - great service and food!

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Experience

"OMAKASE EDOMAE SUSHI"

Experience

"KODAWARI EDOMAE SUSHI"